Haindorf Castle

Haindorf Castle (Lower Castle) is a castle near Langenlois in Lower Austria.

The baroque Haindorf Castle developed from the Feldmühle (Field Mill), which was first mentioned in 1624. Its roots, however, are likely to go back even further, to the Loisbachmühle (Loisbach Mill), which was first mentioned two hundred years earlier in 1407. It belonged to the lordship owned by Peter Hann. In 1582, the President of the Court Chamber, Reichard Streun von Schwarzenau, was the owner of Haindorf. In the following decades, ownership changed frequently. From 1680 to 1876, the Counts of Grundemann were the owners. Afterwards, Leopold Popper von Podraghi acquired it. It fell into great disrepair under Baron Sales. It was restored again under the heraldist Friedrich Graf Lanjus von Wellenburg. During the occupation, it was devastated by Soviet occupation soldiers, so that the count's widow, the local poet Theres Lanjus, had to move out as early as 1945. Later, the company Sachseneder set up factory apartments in the castle.

In 1973, the Province of Lower Austria bought the castle and thoroughly renovated it until 1978. The provincial guild of the construction industry uses the castle as a training center. A three-star seminar hotel is also affiliated with the Bauakademie (Construction Academy). Behind the castle is a large castle park that extends to the Kamp river.

In 1995, the TV series "Spiel des Lebens" (Game of Life) was filmed at Haindorf Castle by ZDF.